Great ideas often visit us when our minds are at their dullest and our hearts at their faintest. We acknowledge a stark reality of everyday life, wherein a feat is all about managing to accomplish the ordinary and holding on to it. In the everyday life of women, feats rarely come in leaps and bounds; instead, they chug along like painfully slow passenger trains, showing up on shabby platforms. The beauty lies in arriving late but arriving nonetheless.

Feats are often defined as acts of extraordinariness achieved with great courage, boldness, and skill. Perhaps it is time to de-edify such words from the dictionaries, whose diktats fail the tests of life and render meanings nonsensical.

For working women, everyday life is full of feats. Imagine juggling household responsibilities and professional goals. Racing against time, all the time. Yet, this is the everyday reality for many urban working women. A journey from 'nowhere' to 'don't know where!' It is all about sustaining the semblance of progress in an environment where deadlines loom, opportunities slip by, and the grind never pauses. Urban women strive to find meaning in their professional and personal roles, often without applause and acknowledgement. And, dear society is still comfortable with unequal pay!

Working women in modern societies often experience guilt for balancing........

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